How did Chinese absorb new words?

Absorbing new words is a on-going process for every language. Chinese has absorbed many, like Shafa(sofa), Pijiu (beer), Youmo(humour), etc. And this process is continuing till today.

In this podcast, I introduced a few more. Enjoy How did Chinese absorb new words?

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